Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 134
Every morning when the sun rose, and every evening when it went down, she would creep out at the door, and as the wind blew aside the ears of corn, so that she could see the blue sky, she thought how beautiful and bright it seemed out there, and wished so much to see her dear swallow again.
Who acts: sun, Tiny, wind, it · What happens: rise, go down, creep out, blow, see, think · To what, where: door, blue sky, much, dear swallow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Tiny, wind, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 rose | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 evening | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 evening | cc |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 evening | det |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 went | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | advcl |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 creep | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 creep | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 creep | aux |
| 18 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 rose | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 creep | compound:prt |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 door | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 creep | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 blew | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 blew | cc |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 blew | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wind | det |
| 27 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 blew | nsubj |
| 28 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 29 | aside | aside | ADP | _ | 31 ears | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ears | det |
| 31 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 blew | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 corn | case |
| 33 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ears | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 see | punct |
| 35 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 39 see | mark |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 so | fixed |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 see | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 see | aux |
| 39 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 blew | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 sky | det |
| 41 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 sky | amod |
| 42 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 see | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 thought | punct |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 thought | nsubj |
| 45 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 46 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 47 beautiful | advmod |
| 47 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 thought | ccomp |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 bright | cc |
| 49 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 beautiful | conj |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 seemed | nsubj |
| 51 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 thought | ccomp |
| 52 | out | out | ADV | _ | 51 seemed | advmod |
| 53 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 51 seemed | advmod |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 wished | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 wished | cc |
| 56 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 57 | so | so | ADV | _ | 58 much | advmod |
| 58 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 wished | obj |
| 59 | to | to | PART | _ | 60 see | mark |
| 60 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 58 much | acl |
| 61 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 63 swallow | nmod:poss |
| 62 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 63 swallow | amod |
| 63 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 see | obj |
| 64 | again | again | ADV | _ | 60 see | advmod |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the sun | evening; morning | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go down | past | sun | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | creep out | would | Tiny | the door | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | blow | past | the wind | aside the ears of corn | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | see | could | Tiny | the blue sky | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sky=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | Tiny | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | seem out | past | it | there | out property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 8 | wish | past | the sun not said here | much | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme | ||||
| 9 | see | to-infinitive | Tiny's dear swallow | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swallow=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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